Recent content by MikeDC

Well, owners of unprofitable teams, and there are quite a few, would certainly prefer to extract even more dollars out of the few really good teams. Honestly, if I were the NBA, I think their best way to profitability would be to demote half the league to AAA status, raid the shit out of the...

I say yay :) My wife says nay :(

This would be good. Even better would be divesting them of much of their power to control others' affairs.

He acted like a fuckwad and did a half-assed job?

Awesome. I had a girl last semester who turned in an obviously plagiarized paper, then explained it by saying "I'm sorry, I was really busy and had my friend write it for me, I didn't think she would have just copied something". Seriously. She then went on to suggest I contact one of her...

Fucking rat turned me in!

With plans like these, it's easy to see why things are so fucked. Also, the generally asinine amount and nature of lawyers we've got isn't all that great

I saw this from the WaPo today and it seems to be making the rounds: While this seems to be picking up steam as an issue, it's actually been around quite a while. I read about similar studies back in 2004 In short, these guys have way too much control over things.

Is it hockey forums or sth else?

Yep, will do it tonight!

Excellent post. I also think it's the simplest explanation why we should give our government less control, rather than more, over our lives. On the other hand, I don't see how protections against unfair use of evidence should be considered part of the "New World Order". For that matter...

By that logic, wouldn't it also be selfish to come back ASAP so as to avoid the "damaged goods" label? I think self-interest and team interest align pretty well here. The team doesn't want a guy who comes back too soon and either re-injures himself and can't play, or who can't play well. The...

This seems sort of muddled to me. Most folks who are poor to middling borrow from folks who are rich. If you want to consider it as a class warfare thing, imagine Rich wants to keep Poor in "servitude" with debt. Rich lends $100,000 to Poor, who makes $10/hr ($20800/yr). If it's your standard...

No, they lose some control. It does generally fall upon the "breaks no law" lines, but these laws are almost universally interpreted to mean "disruption is not ok". The line is always a gray one, of course. Did you catch the Jon Stewart show thing the other day about the union that was (hiring...

I'm afraid your position is confused... the stream of court cases I noted clearly state their terms of First Amendment grounds. Go read them all, come back here, and admit your failure. Not at all. What that says is effectively, the US Constitutional first amendment protection is so obvious...